"At moments in Jesus, the second feature by Chilean director Fernando Guzzoni, you’re close to thinking you’ve seen it all before – not least in the work of Larry Clark – but a delve into the vacant world of a teenage boy and his pals later takes a turn towards something different, a study of a fraught father-son relationship with attendant painful issues of moral responsibility."
Jonathan Romney - Screen Daily
TFL Awards
TFL Production Award 2013 (€ 65.000)
TFL Audience Design Fund 2016 (€ 40.000)
with the support of the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union
festivals & awards
Official Selection, San Sebastián International Film Festival 2016
Discovery Section, Toronto International Film Festival 2016
synopsis
Santiago, Chile. Jesús, 18, lives alone with his father Héctor in a flat where the TV covers up their inability to communicate. The rest of the time, he dances in a K-pop band, hangs out with friends and does drugs, watches trashy clips and has sex in public places, looking for a thrill. One night, he finds it with his friends, being involved in an irreversible misadventure. If this event will make Jesús and Héctor closer than ever, it will also tear them apart forever.
info
original title
Jesús
genre
Drama
country
France, Chile, Germany, Colombia, Greece
running time
83’
produced by
JBA Productions - France
Rampante Films - Chile
in co-production with
unafilm - Germany
Graal Films - Greece
Burning Blue - Colombia
directed by
Fernando Guzzoni
sales
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